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11,071 words match “MENT”

ABETMENT n.
The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.
ABILIMENT n.
Habiliment. [Obs.]
ABJUREMENT n.
Renunciation. [R.]
ABODEMENT n.
A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.
ABOLISHMENT n.
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
ABORSEMENT n.
Abortment; abortion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ABORTMENT n.
Abortion. [Obs.]
ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED a.
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
ABRIDGMENT n. 3 definitions
he state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
ABSENTMENT n.
The state of being absent; withdrawal. [R.] Barrow.
ABUTMENT n. 3 definitions
State of abutting.
ACCLIMATEMENT n.
Acclimation. [R.]
ACCOMPANIMENT n. 2 definitions
, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)
ACCOMPLISHMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.
ACCORDMENT n.
Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.] Gower.
ACCOUCHEMENT n.
Delivery in childbed
ACCOUPLEMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.
ACCOUTERMENTS; ACCOUTREMENTS n.
Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war!
ACCREMENTITIAL a.
Pertaining to accremention.
ACCREMENTITION n.
The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
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